Johnny Chan Wins $1,500 Limit Hold 'Em for Fourth Bracelet Defeats field of 226, including Mansour Matloubi heads up, for $135,600 to become the first player with over two million dollars in WSOP winnings ($2,031,319).
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud (Event #2, 1 day [4/20 start; ended past midnight])
Barbara Enright Becomes First Woman With Two Bracelets Defeats field of 96 for her second Ladies Championship and $38,400 eight years after her first. Runner-up Natalie Ryke nets $22,080 from $1,000-buyin Mother's Day gift from daughter Linda, who won the event in 1987.
$1,000 Women's Seven-Card Stud (Event #20, 2 days [5/8 start])
Jack Keller Joins Poker Hall of Fame Keller won the 1984 WSOP Main Event and reached two other Main Event final tables. He earned two other bracelets and is one of only two players to win both the WSOP and Super Bowl of Poker Main Events (with Stu Ungar).
May 12
Mansour Matloubi Last Champ Standing in Main Event for Second Straight Year Exits in 16th place for $20,160.
Barbara Samuelson Finishes Tenth as Last Woman Standing in WSOP Main Event Wins $26,880 after leading the field with three tables remaining.
Robert Turner Cashes in Record Fourth Straight Main Event Finishes 6th for $50,400, following runs to 10th in 1991 ($11,500), 36th in 1992 ($7,070), and 13th in 1993 ($16,800).
May 13
Russ Hamilton Wins 1994 WSOP Main Event Defeats field of 268, including Hugh Vincent heads up, for $1,000,000 and his weight in silver (330 pounds worth $28,512) to celebrate the 25th WSOP.
$10,000 Main Event - No-Limit Hold 'Em (Event #21, 4 days [5/9 start; ended past midnight])
Winner: Russ Hamilton ($1,000,000 & 1st bracelet)
Entries: 268 (27 paid)
Hamilton also won his weight in silver ($28,512) to celebrate the 25th WSOP.
Adrian Mateos [] b. in Madrid, Spain as Adrian Mateos Diaz (Spanish: Adrián Mateos Díaz) Youngest player to win three bracelets (22 years, 11 months, and 8 days old in 2017) and the second youngest to win four (behind only Phil Ivey) when he took down the 2021 $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold 'Em ($3,265,362). Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2017. Card Player Player of the Year 2017 & 2024. Wikipedia | WSOP.com | Hendon